Fist of the North Star

The Fist of the North Star watch order runs across 152 television episodes split into six blocks, capped by three OVA shorts. Start with Episodes 1-22 and continue through the successive runs — 23-57, 58-82, 83-109, 110-122 and 123-152 — which together follow Kenshiro, the successor of Hokuto Shinken, as he wanders a post-apocalyptic wasteland dispensing brutal justice. After the television series concludes, watch the three OVAs — The Cursed City, The Forbidden Fist and When a Man Carries Sorrow — which sit at the end of the sequence rather than interrupting the main run. There are no movies folded into this order, so the correct path is the six episode blocks in numerical sequence followed by the OVA trio. If you are deciding where to start, Episode 1 is your entry point, and the episodes flow continuously from one block to the next as a single ongoing story.